If there are certain parts of your body that you wish had more volume — like your breasts or buttocks — and areas that were trimmer, a fat transfer could be the solution to your problems.
Triple board-certified surgeon Douglas Hendricks, MD offers his patients in Newport Beach Fat Transfers to help them achieve their desired results. Learn more by calling his office or booking an appointment online.
What is a Fat Transfer?
Our best in Newport Beach Fat Transfer is exactly what it sounds like. During this procedure, Dr. Hendricks takes fat from a part of your body where you have it in excess and moves it to a location where you want more volume.
For example, he can take excess fat from your abdomen and move it to your breasts to increase breast size naturally. Similarly, he can take fat from your thighs and other areas, and move it to your buttocks in what is known as a buttocks fat transfer.
What are the Benefits of Fat Transfer?
Fat transfer procedures offer two notable benefits. First, they give you the opportunity to increase fullness in areas where you want it, helping your body look more proportional and boosting your self-confidence.
Secondly, because Dr. Hendricks needs to derive the fat for your breast or buttock augmentation from your own body, you get to pick an area where you wish you were trimmer. He then removes fat from that area, minimizing or even completely eliminating your problem area.
Which is better — Implants or Fat Transfer?
Neither is better or worse than the other. However, there are individual considerations that may make the procedure suitable for some patients and not others. For example, patients this wish to have breasts that are at least two cup sizes or larger will likely need breast implants (breast augmentation).
Both implants and fat transfer can look very realistic. However, after a fat transfer Newport Beach patients love the extremely natural look and feel of using real body fat to enhance the breasts or buttocks.
No matter which procedure you are interested in, Dr. Hendricks is pleased to speak with you during a private consultation to help make the decision that will deliver the most satisfactory results by drawing on his many years of experience as a triple-board certified surgeon.
How Can Fat Transfer Increase The Size Of My Breasts?
A fat transfer breast augmentation is ideal for women who want to increase the volume of their breasts while maintaining a natural appearance and feel.
Generally, you can’t increase breast size with fat transfer as significantly as you can with implants, but if you want a way to increase volume in your chest while trimming another part of your body, a fat transfer augmentation is ideal.
During the breast fat transfer procedure, Dr. Hendricks performs liposuction on the body area from which you’ve chosen to take the fat. Laser-assisted liposuction, or Smartlipo, is available. He then adds that fat to your breasts through a small incision on either side of your chest.
How Can Fat Transfer Increase The Size Of My Buttocks?
Buttock augmentations, also called Brazilian butt lifts, have skyrocketed in popularity in recent years. During this procedure, Dr. Hendricks uses either traditional liposuction or laser-assisted Smartlipo to remove fat from the area of your choice, whether that’s your waist, hips, or thighs.
He then takes the removed fat, cleans it, and then places it in your buttocks, giving you a fuller, more shapely backside. To learn more about breast and buttock augmentations with fat transfer, call Pacifica Cosmetic Surgery Center, or schedule your appointment online today.
Are Fat Transfer Results Instant?
The results of a fat transfer are immediately visible; however, it is probable that not all of the fat cells that are grafted to enhance a body part will survive. Therefore, at six months or so after your procedure, this is considered the final result. Likewise, surgical fat reduction with liposuction has instant results.
Once the fat is surgically removed, it will not come back unless you gain weight. There is a degree of initial swelling that is expected in the area that had fat cells removed; swelling after liposuction will mostly resolve in a matter of weeks or months, depending on the extent and method of fat removal that was done.
